Comments on: Learning to See https://scooterinthesticks.com/2014/09/learning-to-see/ Exploring life on a Vespa Scooter and Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle. Wed, 10 Sep 2014 02:09:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2014/09/learning-to-see/#comment-9807 Wed, 10 Sep 2014 02:03:20 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=4023#comment-9807 In reply to Dar.

Kim is one of the smartest, if not the smartest, person I’ve ever met. She knows me better than I probably do myself and can read the agitated energy the says “photography” to her.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2014/09/learning-to-see/#comment-9806 Wed, 10 Sep 2014 02:01:42 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=4023#comment-9806 In reply to VStarLady.

I have a couple of Otter Boxes from my canoeing days. Will have to dig them up.

I’ll have to see what other expressions I can dig up that are like “piano picture”!

]]> By: VStarLady https://scooterinthesticks.com/2014/09/learning-to-see/#comment-9781 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 02:05:01 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=4023#comment-9781 …And it’s always good to have an otter box (or facsimile) to stow away your camera with clouds like those. I love the splash of headlight on the storm dark pavement. (Sadly, I understood exactly what you meant by piano shot!)

]]> By: Dar https://scooterinthesticks.com/2014/09/learning-to-see/#comment-9769 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 04:54:58 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=4023#comment-9769 Kim seems like a wise woman “Go, go take pictures” sometimes our spouses know what our souls need to nourish them more than we do. I Like the piano picture reference. I love that you were letting your soul fly from riding your scooter.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2014/09/learning-to-see/#comment-9765 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 23:42:26 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=4023#comment-9765 In reply to maestro.

Love the idea of the muse being responsible for the quality of the work — good or bad. I had not heard that before. I can see how it would take some of the pressure away.

Showing up to work can be really difficult some days when you feel as if your muse is just pushing you to do more and more bad work. Thankfully those spells never lasted so long that I gave up and turned towards another way of life…

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2014/09/learning-to-see/#comment-9764 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 23:39:45 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=4023#comment-9764 In reply to dom.

I first heard that term in 1973 and it stuck with me. A photographer friend takes it a bit further as he invokes the Zone System that many associate with Ansel Adams. He talks about strong pictures like this: “I previsualized that picture through the sale to the Museum of Modern Art.”.

It’s a photographer thing…

]]> By: maestro https://scooterinthesticks.com/2014/09/learning-to-see/#comment-9763 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 22:43:11 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=4023#comment-9763 Your experience mirrors mine as a composer; if you wait for the muse to strike, you’ll wait a long time. Rather, if you show up faithfully to do the work, MAYBE the muse will meet you there! So you have to have the discipline to keep working, and then, if you do, the art begins to create itself. Speaking of muses, the Greeks had a nice idea about them — THEY are responsible for the quality of the art, not YOU. So, if you make a great photo or a great piece of music, thank your muse; on the other hand, if you make a lousy one, you can blame your muse, too! Some people get genius muses, and some people get mediocre ones! I like the idea because it takes the pressure off! Anyway, thanks for inspiring some great ideas!

]]> By: dom https://scooterinthesticks.com/2014/09/learning-to-see/#comment-9742 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 02:56:24 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=4023#comment-9742 “Piano Picture”…..I like that.

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